Coming hot on the heals of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR is the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 which features some new bits and better support for SQL 2008.
You can get a full description over at the Microsoft Download site , but this new version of Data Dude has a number of feature enhancements and bug fixes included in the release…
If you are an avid Data Dude user then you will need no encouragement to update, but if you are not and you do any sort of database development then you should take a look, as even with the substantial learning or conversion curve, it will provide the sort of benefits that only .NET code developers have had in the past along with a few other enhancements just for you…
Have you ever wanted to be able to deploy a new version of your database from a USB memory stick and have it automatically produce a differencing script and run it against the target :)
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